Mert Satır received his B.Sc. degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from Turkish Naval Academy as a navy officer. He is currently an M.Sc. degree student at Bogazici University under the supervision of Prof. Murat Celik. His main research interests are experimental techniques such as plasma diagnostics. He is working on building and testing of a Retarding Potential Analyzer and Langmuir Probe to be used in BUSTLab.

Mert has joined the group in November 2013. He is studying invasive plasma diagnostics methods and will build a Langmuir probe, a Faraday probe and a retarding potential analyser (RPA). Mert's M.Sc. thesis will be focused on the design, manufacturing and validation of an RPA. He is also in charge of temperature measurements for the hollow cathode heater region.

Mert has contributed to the following publications:

Journal Publications

Jahanbakhsh, S.; Satir, M.; Celik, M., "Study of electron current extraction from a radio frequency plasma cathode designed as a neutralizer for ion source applications," Review of Scientific Instruments, 2015: SUBMITTED - under review
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Conference Proceedings

Jahanbakhsh, S.; Satir, M.; Celik, M., "Study of electron current extraction from a radio frequency plasma cathode designed as a neutralizer for ion source applications," 16th International Conference on Ion Sources, New York, NY, USA, August 2015
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Satir, M.; Sik, F.; Turkoz, E. and Celik, M., "Design of the Retarding Potential Analyzer to be used with BURFIT-80 Ion Thruster and Validation using PIC-DSMC Code," 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST), vol., no., pp.511,516, 16-19 June 2015.
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